ginger wine

British  

noun

1. an alcoholic drink made from fermented bruised ginger, sugar, and water

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Example Sentences

The butcher's wife gave us cake and ginger wine, and was very jolly.

From Oswald Bastable and Others by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)

“No rum, gentlemen?” said Silas; “well, you do astonish me; but you’ll taste my wife’s green ginger wine, and drink her health?”

From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Stables, Gordon

And the toast was drunk in ginger wine and water, out of willow-patterned tea-cups, because the glasses couldn't be found.

From The Railway Children by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

He was shown into the blue-and-white room, and there, after business had been transacted, very nervously on Miss Ailie's part, she offered him his choice between ginger wine and what she falteringly called wh-wh-whiskey.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Ginger wine may be made in precisely the same manner, only, with the 9-gallon cask for ginger wine, 2 lbs. of the best whole ginger, 'bruised', must be put with the sugar.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)